When did America stop dreaming big? On colonizing/exploring Mars and hating on Musk

BurntToShreds said:

Adding tens of thousands of manmade structures that, when they de-orbit, release ozone-destroying molecules that will be around for decades, and then sending more up to replace them, is still really bad. Especially when we can supply Internet to people through fiber and fixed wireless:


Karl Bode is a journalist that does a lot of work on the telecoms beat. Last week, he posted a thread to Bluesky about how the Biden infrastructure bill has been helping and will continue to help, and assholes like Musk are decrying it as a "waste of taxpayer money".

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We can do that terrestrial telecom provision so well, that even Comcast Business would rather partner with Starlink for rural connectivity

That's completely unsurprising. As covered upthread, running broadband to certain areas in the US is something telecom providers often look to avoid. And, as has been covered on the FP, some of locations telcos will refuse to service aren't even reasonably considered remote. Before options such as Starlink, it resulted in some neighbors pooling together to share costs of broadband buildout—which often aren't cheap. Telcos will sometimes offer buildout—but at significantly marked up prices. As a result, many areas are in effective broadband deserts. It similar to the early days of mobile telephony.